Chapter 89 Chapter 89 What have you been looking at online? ...
Although Jason did not express his inner thoughts, which were as powerful and deadly as a tornado that destroyed a seaside parking lot, Li Hua and Benjamin both understood what he meant.
After all, the frequency of "Scarecrow"'s appearances has been really too high recently. He has been involved in every assist in Li Hua's recent slightly interesting performances.
"Honestly, I'm actually quite surprised by your two reactions right now."
Jason began to collect the used medical supplies.
"After all, you two look like good kids. After all, you always told me not to blow those bastards' heads off with your guns, and even told me not to use too much force. But now someone's dead, and your reactions are as nonchalant as if you were just out for ice cream."
Li Hua: "There's a difference between premeditated murder and self-defense. But I kind of understand what you mean, Jason. Witnessing the loss of life firsthand can be a bit... moving, I guess. It's not the first time I've seen this kind of scene, so I'm somewhat immune to it. It's precisely because of this that I understand more clearly how precious and hard-won life is, and I loathe those who so recklessly take it. I may not have the courage to kill someone outright now, but I do have the courage to watch a scum like this go to hell without mercy, or to give them a kick."
Benjamin: "I'm not good with words, so I'll be blunt. When Desmond threatens the lives of ordinary people and wants to kill Li Hua, he should be prepared to die."
"I thought you were the one in our group who would be the most likely to denounce this kind of behavior."
Jason whistled, rolled up the bloody bandage and threw it into the trash can like a basketball.
"Because that Vilgax you always mention is still alive, and your two good brothers were once the ones who wanted to kill their enemies, so I thought you were the kind of person who could move the world with kindness."
"I'm just saying that if someone is willing to repent, I'm willing to give them a chance," Benjamin said. "But I'll only give them a chance after their threat is eliminated. Vilgax didn't survive because I didn't try to kill him. He was unkillable."
"That's right. From grandfather to grandson, he hasn't been killed yet. Vilgax is your Tennyson family's mortal enemy, hereditary across generations."
Li Hua hugged his bandaged arm and began to complain happily.
"I believe you're kind-hearted, but you say he wouldn't kill? Those who survived his clutches were truly skilled. Vilgax was beaten to a pulp with only his head and half his body left, or even had his entire body shattered, yet he still managed to be reborn. Ghost is even more incredible, having survived death multiple times, bouncing back and forth between life and death more often than I adjust the hot and cold settings on my shower head."
"Please don't make me sound like a Death Knight, okay? I'm not that violent. It's their fault for causing such a big mess. I couldn't hold back and subdue them, and they didn't know how to give up or surrender. If I didn't beat them to death, it would be me, my family, the entire Earth, and even the entire galaxy that would perish."
Benjamin said helplessly.
"My demands aren't high. As long as they don't come to Earth to cause trouble again, that's enough. For example, Ghost Shadow is now in the Plumber Center Prison, but I didn't rush in and kill him."
Li Hua: "...The ghost is still alive? Didn't you burn him to ashes?"
In his memory, the ghost had died twice during Benjamin's summer vacation, and now he was still alive? He was really tough.
Benjamin forced a wry smile on his face. "The Iktorians are amazing, aren't they?"
If he can be revived to full health with just one cell or even one DNA, how can he be killed?
"Omnitrix Selection, that's how authoritative it is," said 666. "The Omnitrix will select the highest-quality DNA from the vast number of samples it can collect from that species, the one that's most likely to survive and survive. So the alien form it can transform into isn't necessarily the most powerful of that species, but it will definitely be the one that can survive the longest."
Benjamin: "But Ghost also seems to be the best fighter and the most evil of his kind. What does that mean?"
Jason laughed heartily. "You're unlucky! I'll give you three limited titles from the non-guaranteed pool!"
Li Hua consoled him, "It's okay, Ben. While the Ghost is the most evil, resilient, and powerful of his race, look at it from another perspective... isn't Vilgax the same? So, you snatched up a total of six limited titles from two non-guaranteed limited pools. From a probability perspective, you're incredibly lucky."
Benjamin was very depressed: "I would rather not have this luck."
No. 666 couldn't bear to watch: "Li Hua, are you just so lucky?"
Look at what cards you drew after playing cards, and look at how many times you have been ambushed recently.
Li Hua looked away.
"Alright, alright. Go to bed before the anesthetic wears off. You're exhausted tonight." Jason packed up his medical kit and patted Li Hua on his uninjured shoulder. "I heard it's going to rain tonight, so remember to lock the windows. Call me if anything happens."
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Half asleep and half awake, Li Hua heard a small familiar voice.
Li Hua had heard similar sounds before and knew it was birds pecking at the window, but he wondered in his heart, "Is it time for the birds to wake up now?" He habitually pulled the quilt up to cover his ears, turned over, and tried to go back to sleep.
But Li Hua forgot that there was a freshly sutured wound on his right arm. The effect of the anesthetic had worn off, and the freshly sutured wound did not tolerate this careless owner. It did not hesitate to attack the surrounding pain nerve endings to show its presence.
This pain could not make Li Hua give up his comfortable bed and sweet dreams, but it was enough to make him briefly sober. Li Hua squinted his eyes and noticed that the window he had locked was opened and a figure was about to come in from outside.
? !
Li Hua's sleepiness was swept away, and he jumped out of bed. He asked No. 666 to take out the Star Staff and instantly transformed himself to activate the [Shield], and at the same time he was about to shout loudly: "Enemy——"
"Shh, shh—it's me!" The figure pulled aside the fluttering curtains, and the light from the street lamp illuminated Nightwing's face. "I knocked on the window and no one answered, so I picked the lock and came in. I'm sorry for scaring you."
"You can't pick the locks or climb through the windows if no one answers." Realizing it was a false alarm, Li Hua put the card and staff away and said, "You can call, and we'll hold the door open for you."
"It's an occupational hazard. I'm used to walking through the window." Nightwing climbed into the house and closed the curtains again. "Besides, I have something I want to talk to you about alone."
Li Hua: "What?"
Nightwing's face is always lively and smiling, but at this moment, Nightwing's expression has nothing to do with the above emotions. Li Hua can't tell what emotions are entangled in Nightwing at the moment, but he also knows that it is definitely not a good emotion.
"The giant is dead. He died of heart failure," Nightwing said, "and you don't seem...surprised."
Li Hua: "I watched him being resuscitated. When you went there, his electrocardiogram showed he was only beating with the help of a defibrillator. Honestly, I would be surprised if you said he was still alive."
"Yeah...it's almost impossible for him to survive." Nightwing murmured, and then asked, "What were you thinking when you used fear gas on the giant?"
Oh, here it comes. Li Hua knew there would be such a conversation.
He had watched popular science videos on the rule of law and knew that as long as someone died, the motive would definitely be questioned in court.
Therefore, Li Hua reiterated, "I had no intention of using it on him. I just wanted to use it on myself so I could escape. Who knew he'd get so close? If I wanted to kill him, I would have used the [Remove] card to remove his tubes while he was being resuscitated, or used the [Dismiss] card to destroy the body... Wait, yeah, why didn't I use the [Dismiss] card to get myself out?"
The grip Desmond used on him was stronger than the handcuffs AK Scarecrow used on AK Batman. The added strength from the fear gas was simply not enough. In addition, Li Hua's hands were hurting at the time, so he simply gave up struggling and waited for someone to come and take him.
Looking back now, I realize why he didn't think of using the [Dismiss] card to save himself after knocking Desmond down!
"Uh... maybe it's due to lack of experience."
Seeing Li Hua muttering "It's better not to have this kind of experience", Ye Yi couldn't help but laugh, as if relieved.
"I'm so sorry, Li Hua."
Li Hua was completely bewildered. "What's wrong? Oh, I get it. We have to go through the process, right? First, let me go to the Bludhaven Police Station to record my statement, and then I can hire a lawyer to defend my innocence. But the magic boy's identity might be exposed? That's okay. I don't have a real identity in this world anyway, so I can just let it be exposed."
Nightwing: ???
"no."
What are you thinking about?
"I'm just sorry for putting you in such a dangerous situation where you almost lost your life." Nightwing regretted it deeply. "I'm really sorry for letting you..."
Almost took a life.
Li Hua finally understood the emotion in Ye Yi's eyes. It was the emotion in his parents' eyes when he was sick as a child. It was self-blame.
Li Hua then jumped out of bed and gave Nightwing a hug: "It's okay, Dick, none of us can choose where we are born. I don't hate you just because Desmond is your relative."
This is a very warm scene, the only flaw is——
Nightwing: "No... Desmond is not my relative, not in any sense of the word."
Li Hua, what are you imagining?
"Then why are you sorry?"
Li Hua looked into Ye Yi's eyes, put his arm around his shoulder and spoke seriously.
"The giant didn't give birth to you, and you didn't give birth to him. His parents never apologized to me—oh, his father seems to have died a long time ago, right? Then let me correct that—his mother never apologized to me for raising a son who is a jerk who kills thousands of people. What are you sorry for? Sorry for not killing him sooner? This is not your fault. It's human instinct not to want to kill people. It's not your fault. Besides, Nightwing has no law enforcement power, and it would be difficult for Dick Grayson to find a place to legally kill him."
In fact, Li Hua knew what Nightwing was blaming himself for. Putting himself in Nightwing's perspective, he realized that he had promised to take good care of the child, but the child was almost killed by the criminals he was responsible for in his own jurisdiction... For people with a strong sense of responsibility, they will indeed condemn themselves.
But Li Hua didn't think Ye Yi had done anything wrong. Why do good people always blame themselves for not doing well enough and regard the sins committed by bad people as their own fault?
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that people throughout history, both in China and abroad, have called those with such high moral sense heroes, saints, or even martyrs.
For example, wearing only one piece of clothing to obey the mother, cutting off flesh to feed the eagle, and Jesus' martyrdom...
It is said that meanness is the passport of the mean, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble. But most people cannot achieve this purity. They either suffer because they are not mean enough, or survive because they are not noble enough.
Li Hua is the latter.
He could intellectually understand why these people sacrificed their lives for their ideals, but he admired the kind of people he could never be.
The world needs idealists, and even more so, people who put their ideals into practice, but this does not mean that Li Hua thinks they should endure more pain.
Of course, Li Hua doesn’t quite understand the reason now, but he knows one thing clearly.
"Thank you, Li Hua, but..."
Seeing that Ye Yi was about to speak, Li Hua raised his hand and covered his mouth.
"Don't apologize. You have done nothing wrong to me. This is the path I chose! Are you going to blame Batman when you get hurt on a mission?"
Nightwing was not at fault in this matter.
“…”
With his mouth covered, Ye Yi silently reached under Li Hua's armpit to lift the child up, then gently put him aside before speaking helplessly.
"Li Hua, you stepped on my foot."
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The author has something to say: Nightwing: Child, I am really touched that you comfort me, but can you move your feet first?
Nightwing thought of Li Hua as: a poor kid who was acting in self-defense, it’s a good thing he didn’t get scared.
Jason and Benjamin thought of Li Hua: Seizing the enemy's weakness and counterattacking, Bulbasaur.
Li Hua: Desmond's mother had a good relationship with him. It's pitiful for an old lady to lose her child when she's old. Yeah, I feel sorry for that, too. I regret that she wasn't there.
No. 666: That’s why I said you should practice magic more. If you have mastered magic now, you can just [discard] the whole set of cards and take them away. It’s simple and quick.
The author of these two chapters: Damn it... I was thinking of developing the plot and seeing which villain other than Scarecrow to persecute so that the three of them could gain experience to continue advancing the plot. But in the end, I found out that Desmond was dead after writing it, and even persecuted Scarecrow again... But there were too many BUFFs stacked up, and it seemed that it would be even more difficult for Desmond to survive. Forget it, he might as well die.
Regarding the question of whether Benjamin kills or not...if this guy is as determined to eliminate the trouble forever as in the original book, he is really stubborn. Even when he finds that people around him advise him not to do so, he will pretend to listen to them in order to get help (he can pretend so much that even his cousin who grew up with him can't find out about the problem), and then he just stops acting!
Benjamin: You are the one who can make me completely mad (thumbs up), and you will be even more so if you can survive from my hands later (thumbs up)
[It turns out that most of the enemies in his hometown are still very tenacious.]
In other words...if Benjamin is really pushed to the limit, he could actually act like a normal person in front of Batman or others, and then turn around and kill someone based on Batman's actions or intelligence...
Isn't this going to be another stomachache drama? Don't do that!
The original work is roughly like this:
Jason: Batman, kill the Joker!
Batman: No.
Jason: (starts arguing)
Benjamin: Gwen, we have to kill Kevin to put an end to this trouble once and for all.
Gwen: No, Ben, we need to have a good talk with him. (PS: This is after Kevin joined the team for a while and the three of them formed a deep friendship. For some reason, he decided to return to his old villain career - but he got better later)
Benjamin: ...Yes, you're right. I'm sorry I got carried away. Let's go talk to Kevin.
…After Gwen found Kevin, the two of them went over and Benjamin started fighting right away.
Gwen: ??? Didn’t you tell me you’d talk it over?
Benjamin: Yes, I was kidding you.
Me when rewatching it: …OMG.
Murderous intent that can be hidden and disguised is more difficult to deal with than murderous intent that cannot be disguised. Murderous intent that can deceive one's family and closest comrades is especially difficult to deal with!
So do you know how much effort I put in to stop him from killing people? [Breaking down crying]
The key is that if Benjamin kills one, two, three, or four, it's fine, but there are so many in the DC Universe that can push him to the limit and mess with people's mentality. If he stays a little longer, makes contact, attacks, he will start a killing spree. What if he goes on a killing spree and returns to his own universe to unleash his invincibility? No! Don't let that happen! There are already so many dark Benjamins, don't add another one!
Don't mess with my lively and cheerful little boy group and happy ending! [Breaking down in tears]
【Catch a bug once】
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